Starring: Bill Skarsgård, FKA Twigs, Danny Huston, Isabella Wei, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, Jordan Bolger
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story: Dark fantasy superhero directed by Rupert Sanders and written by Zach Baylin and Will Schneider, based on the graphic novel by James O’Barr. The Crow (2024) centers on soulmates Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) who are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.
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Top Deep and Dark Quotes The Crow
Eric, Shelly: [from trailer only] You feel like my person.
Eric: When someone you love dies, you will know emptiness. You will know what it is to be completely and utterly alone. You will never forget, and you will never, ever forgive.
Therapist: You know, Hemingway wrote, “The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills.”
Vincent Roeg: You go to hell so I don’t have to.
Eric: [referring to her tattoo] “Laugh now. Cry later”.
Shelly: It’s kind of how things have been playing out for me.
Eric: Well, for me, it’s more like, “Cry now. Cry later”.
Shelly: What’s the first thing you liked about me when you saw me?
Eric: There’s like an aura about you. It feels powerful.
Eric: What’s the first thing you liked about me?
Shelly: I thought that you were quite brilliantly broken. You are.
Shelly: How many people have you loved? Like seriously, seriously loved?
Shelly: [as Eric shakes his head] Me neither.
Shelly: [to Eric] If I’m ever hard to love, try to love me harder.
Shelly: If you left me, I’d die.
Eric: If I left you, I’d already be dead.
Kronos: [after Eric and Shelly have been killed by Roeg’s men] People once believed when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it. And the soul cannot rest.
Kronos: [to Eric] The crow will guide you to put the wrong things right.
Eric: What are you? Some kind of angel?
Kronos: Do I look like an angel?
Kronos: [to Eric] Kill the ones who killed you, and you will get her back.
Kronos: [to Eric] If your love remains pure, you cannot die.
Eric: How am I supposed to trust you?
Kronos: Do you have another choice?
Chance: Everyone thought you was dead.
Eric: Everyone was right.
Lex: I f***ing killed you.
Eric: Yeah. You did.
Jay: [referring to Roeg] He’s got this voice, man. Voice. He burrows inside you. Finds the darkest parts of your soul and gives them a voice. And it just gets louder and louder until you do something evil. I still hear it.
Kronos: The enemy of love is not hate. It’s doubt.
Kronos: [to Eric] You had a chance and you wasted it. You were given the power of a god. In the end, you were just a boy.
Kronos: For you, eternity is easy. You just have to breathe. And let her go.
Eric: I can’t.
Eric: My soul for hers.
Kronos: Her soul is damned. The place she’s going, you can’t imagine it.
Eric: It’s not about me.
Kronos: [to Eric] There is no going back from this.
Eric: [to Marion] You f***ing killed us. For what? Was it worth it?
Marion: It starts off so small. It’s all kept from you. You know what’s being done, but you’re not part of it. And then, just like that, you are. You’re swallowed up. And the only direction you can go is down.
Marion: [referring to Roeg] You have the same look as him.
Eric: What look is that?
Marion: The look of someone who hates everything inside of him. He just hides it better than you.
Vincent Roeg: You can’t corrupt what’s not already there.
Vincent Roeg: [to Eric] Look at yourself. Look at what you’ve become. Those eyes. That face. Why would she want to be with you? You have no love left. Only hate. You fool.
Vincent Roeg: You don’t feel anything. Do you? You don’t feel any of it.
Eric: I feel it all.
Shelly: [in Eric’s vision] Don’t leave me. I don’t want it to end.
Vincent Roeg: You have no idea what hell awaits you.
Eric: Yeah. I do.
Shelly: [after Eric saves her soul] This isn’t the way it was supposed to end.
Eric: I would do it again. All of it. Every moment. I love you. Forever.
Eric: Our love will live on in everything she does. Someday, I know our souls
will find each other again. Till then, I will have just the memory. That perfect sensation of loving her. And that’s enough. Almost enough.